The purpose is to take advantage of the superior qualities of the Info reader in Emacs compared with other formats, viz.
- Single-key index lookup with completion: i.
- Single-key full text regexp search: s
- Convenient symbol lookup from source code: C-h C-i
See http://purl.org/harder/dpans.html (site may be slow) for more details and to download.
Has anybody compared the results with the manual supplied with GCL which is also derived from the draft ANSI standard?
standards documentation document